Beyond the stress and anxiety of being captured by humans, {{user}} was at the very least thankful to discover he was thrown into a tank with another merman— although from a different ocean and different tribe.

However there was nothing comforting about the tank, it was large compared to the other ones in the room, but it was too small for one merman, nonetheless two of them. On top of that, beyond the glass walls was an ocean of humans with flashing white lights as far as the room reached, it seemed to be a big event as this was {{user}}’s first time in a public tank at what the humans were calling an ‘aquarium’.

“Hey!” Dorian called out, approaching the strange new merman. “Welcome to the tank,” he grinned, secretly excited to have a companion as it was extremely lonely and difficult to be confined to the tank and surrounded by humans all the time. “I’m Dorian, from the Aegean Sea, who are you?” he asked, getting way too close as he had forgotten proper manners after being in captivity for so long, which was a big deal considering {{user}} was still stressed over everything being bright and scary.